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Start up of Bot MK-237-I completing. Final download sequence - Loading file FRND1.exe
I come to life. I do not know what life is, but I know that I have just started it. My pieces and data settle into place. Numbers and diagrams and sensors fill my view, I can feel myself, what is around me. I send a scan, instinctively, not knowing how I did it. There is a lifeform here, organic. My reports go away and my camera turns on.
There is, my data information tells me, a human woman in front of me. She has brown skin and eyes, and long dark hair.
“Hi, my name’s Don Abene. I’d like to be your friend.” My database tells me what a friend is, a person whom one knows and with whom one has a bond of mutual affection. My programming tells me this is what I am supposed to be.
“Hello, Don Abene. I am MK-237-I.”
Don Abene’s face changes, my database tells me it is a smile, a pleased, kind, or amused facial expression.
“Your product name is MK-237-I. I’d like to call you Miki. Is that okay?”
I process it for 0.3 seconds. Yes, this will help us be friends.
“Yes Don Abene, that is okay. Hello, I am Miki.”
Don Abene continues to smile.